Andrea Pitzer
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
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Andrea Pitzer
@andreapitzer.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Degenerate Art
Andrea Pitzer on politics and history, the Arctic, and Appalachian exile.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
I currently have a newsletter in which I write regularly about how societies devolve into authoritarianism & what that means right now in the US & around the world. It also features essays about my unsettled childhood in West Virginia. Soon, it will also include art, surprises, & links to resources.
I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
Quiet, Piggy
Trump's relentless campaign against women has shifted U.S. culture.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
Bring back shame.
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Bring back shame.
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1. This History/Literary Thread is about my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" (how to order it is at end of thread!) These exciting essays include WW2 Burma & #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar, bison, elk, wolves, Heizer's "City" & Indigenous mound sites. 📚
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
1. This History/Literary Thread is about my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" (how to order it is at end of thread!) These exciting essays include WW2 Burma & #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar, bison, elk, wolves, Heizer's "City" & Indigenous mound sites. 📚
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During an unusual evidentiary hearing Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, former Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi accused a retired CPD detective of orchestrating a horrific program of torture.
Former CPD detective accused of crafting ‘sadistic’ interrogation plan used at Guantanamo
During an unusual evidentiary hearing Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, former Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi described abuse by a former CPD detective while giving testimon…
trib.al
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
During an unusual evidentiary hearing Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, former Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi accused a retired CPD detective of orchestrating a horrific program of torture.
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This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
He's also confusing what historians do with journalism. You don't get to cancel actual day-to-day reporting just because the guy will probably be around a long time.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
He's also confusing what historians do with journalism. You don't get to cancel actual day-to-day reporting just because the guy will probably be around a long time.
It's like AI circular funding but for something useful!
The entire economy around here is based on everyone passing the same $40 in the last ten days of every month
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It's like AI circular funding but for something useful!
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
Meta’s data-center accounting gets the Jon Weil treatment:
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
It’s “financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet. That outcome looks too good to be true, and it probably is.”
@wsj.com $META
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.
FAUSTUS: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
MEPHISTOPHELES: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
—Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
MEPHISTOPHELES: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
—Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
FAUSTUS: How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
MEPHISTOPHELES: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
—Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
MEPHISTOPHELES: Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
—Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
And maybe the cranberry cake @lollardfish.bsky.social's wife makes.
Hello. Here’s a holiday cake for you. My wife is a professional recipe writer and is currently out of work and I’m trying to persuade her that her recipes are amazing. And there’s no bullshit narrative. Just recipes that work.
www.patreon.com/posts/595692...
www.patreon.com/posts/595692...
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
And maybe the cranberry cake @lollardfish.bsky.social's wife makes.
Fuck it, I'm abandoning pumpkin pie this year. Going to make apple, pecan, and blackberry.
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Fuck it, I'm abandoning pumpkin pie this year. Going to make apple, pecan, and blackberry.
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“If I am killed / for simply living, / let death be kinder / than man.”
— Althea Davis
— Althea Davis
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“If I am killed / for simply living, / let death be kinder / than man.”
— Althea Davis
— Althea Davis
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How does an amazing Congressional candidate like @bethmacy.bsky.social only have a few hundred followers??
Can we get her to 10k by Thanksgiving?
Can we get her to 10k by Thanksgiving?
Beth Macy never thought she would run for Congress. But she knows democracy is on the line and couldn't resist the pleas of those who believe she's the only candidate who can beat the awful Ben Cline.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
Update your bingo card
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
How does an amazing Congressional candidate like @bethmacy.bsky.social only have a few hundred followers??
Can we get her to 10k by Thanksgiving?
Can we get her to 10k by Thanksgiving?
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A few thoughts, before the ball games start, on a strange last week in Charlotte ... and the real virtues of CHARLOTTE'S WEB.
tommytomlinson.substack.com/p/bruised-bu...
tommytomlinson.substack.com/p/bruised-bu...
Bruised but unbroken in Charlotte
The story of a strange week
tommytomlinson.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A few thoughts, before the ball games start, on a strange last week in Charlotte ... and the real virtues of CHARLOTTE'S WEB.
tommytomlinson.substack.com/p/bruised-bu...
tommytomlinson.substack.com/p/bruised-bu...
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The crimes are happening everywhere, all the time. We’re going to learn about staggering amounts of corruption.
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The crimes are happening everywhere, all the time. We’re going to learn about staggering amounts of corruption.
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
Not mocking him! It wouldn't surprise me to find out that he knew and liked her music.
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Not mocking him! It wouldn't surprise me to find out that he knew and liked her music.
Jesus died for somebody's sins
But not mine.
But not mine.
There is no pain
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
You are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Jesus died for somebody's sins
But not mine.
But not mine.
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this could mean several different things, none of which are reassuring
![“The question is, is it legal just to kill the guy if he’s not threatening to kill you and you’re outside an armed conflict? There are people who are simply uncomfortable with the president just declaring we’re at war with drug traffickers,” said a former senior official familiar with the debate.
“Internally, a lot of people are treating this like the rendition program,” the former official said. “It’s one thing to get rid of [Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein or [Libyan autocrat] Moammar Gaddafi for counterterrorism reasons. This is different.’’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreiecj776a2owo634tm7djoq4xyfwoteenbzzind7uxqlvnfkfiak7u@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this could mean several different things, none of which are reassuring
You could always subscribe to my newsletter instead of reading... that.
Degenerate Art
Andrea Pitzer on politics and history, the Arctic, and Appalachian exile.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
You could always subscribe to my newsletter instead of reading... that.
Not gonna read that shit. Will instead preserve my few remaining brain cells.
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Not gonna read that shit. Will instead preserve my few remaining brain cells.
Melvins, Ministry, and MBV were the three loudest shows I ever attended (all at old 9:30). So maybe it's bands that start with M that go to 11.
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Melvins, Ministry, and MBV were the three loudest shows I ever attended (all at old 9:30). So maybe it's bands that start with M that go to 11.